Went to go out detecting tonight with the 1280x

[Pete in MI]

Sherry dropped me off at a small park with a swimming hole. Didn't see a life guard on duty but took the detector and my scoop and towel and headed off while Sherry drove over to her sister's house to visit while Casey was at her tutor's house getting edjumakated.

Got to the swimming hole to see signs posted: "Closed for the season - No swimming."

Guess because the college kids are back in college there aren't any life guards to man the towers.

Glad Sherry's sister didn't live more than a mile away. Got some exercise walking over there. Didn't figure I would need the cell phone - besides it doesn't work well in water so told her to keep it.

Guess they figure people send their kids off to school none of the adults will want to swim without kids present.

 

[MI$$OURI BETTY]

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[Mike from MI Iron Brigade]

Did you detect? I would have. It did not say no wading or detecting???

 

[Joe G]

I would have detected too. How deep do you go in? If they just see your head stickin' out of the water, well, maybe they have a point If you're walking around up to your hips I don't think anyone would bother you.

 

[Pete in MI]

I go just over waist deep. If I have the waders on I can obviously say "swimming? you think I'd be swimming with these on?"

I did have a towel and just my swim suit but then again how many people swim carrying a scoop and a metal detector.

I may go back later and give it a shot. Sure was glad not to have had the waders and then been kicked out just to have to walk over to the sister in law's with the scoop, detector and the waders in hand.

A couple other parks with swimming areas have told me to get out of the water until life guards are on duty. I hate waiting until 9 AM. It gets warmer in the sun than it is at daylight and I don't detect as well with swimmers standing aroung asking what I am doing (at that point the answer would be 'nothing').

The reason for the life guards is a knee jerk reaction put in place when one of the parks that never had - in fact none ever had - life guards had an incident.

Seems one of the holidays there was way too many people in the water for the size of the swimming area. Someone wound up dying - drowning. So there solution was to put life guards on duty - and they made the swimming area much larger (though not safer). The new area contained broken glass which some of it I pulled up out of the bottom in my scoop and showed to the parks people (who didn't seem to care).

Like I mentioned there never was this 'life guard on duty' situation until the one incident that happened in a small swimming area on an over crowded holiday.

The other day when I was asked to leave I had the scoop, detector and waders on. Arguing with the park people isn't a way to make friends or influence people so I left. (This isn't the same place I was at yesterday so I'll try there again soon).

 

[Pete in MI]

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[Mike from MI Iron Brigade]

the water is still in the 70's. You can handle that Pete! Don't be a sissy!